Monday, 9 February 2015

In
just two weeks, Southern Lord Recordings will reissue the As Heaven
Turns To Ash... debut and subsequent I Am Dying EP from
short-lived, iconic Massachusetts doom conjurors, WARHORSE.

Long
out-of-print, fervently sought after, and unconditionally vital in
foreshadowing the plethora of current acts who indulge in slow, self-possessed,
infernal low-end sound excursions, As Heaven Turns To Ash... was
issued in 2001 with the band's final two-track I Am Dying EP
unleashed just one year later, both via the Southern Lord stable. Still reeking
of brimstone, bong smoke, and burning tube amp, both slabs of doom domination
will be combined and reanimated later this month on double LP and digital formats.

In
observance of its release, Vice Magazine's music portal, Noisey, hurls forth
"Doom's Bride," the second movement off As Heaven Turns To
Ash... elaborating, "Traditionally speaking, a
war horse is a massive beast, capable of carrying its master into the heat of
battle and fending off attackers by virtue of its imposing bulk and deadly
flying hooves. From the plains of Asia to medieval bloodbaths up to the far-flung
atrocities of WWII, war horses' lives were stained by blood, narrated
by screams, and generally-mercifully-short. Given their brutal
history, it's not exactly difficult to see why they'd serve as the
namesake for not one, but at least five different heavy metal bands... The
MassachusettsWARHORSE was as short-lived as its namesake, but left
a far greater impact than any of those poor nags ever did. The scarcity of
their recordings rendered them cult classics, and their syrupy, downtuned
grooves more than stand the test of time -- a fact that Southern Lord picked up
on when they decided to reissue WARHORSE's seminal 2001
full-length, As Heaven Turns To Ash..., and finalI Am Dying 7"
together in one monumentally heavy package."

Feel
the cataclysmic crush of "Doom's Bride" now suffocating the
frequencies of Noisey atTHIS LOCATION.

Forged
in 1996 and lasting the best part of a decade, the output of WARHORSE wallows
deep down, grooving at the kind of frequency usually associated with imminent
natural disaster. But in addition to their intricate delivery, WARHORSE exuded
an experimental, subtle psychedelic swagger which gave rise to gritty and
memorable riffs, and saw them sharing stages with the likes of such
amplification legends as Electic Wizard, Khanate, Acid King, High On Fire and
Unearthy Trance.

As
Heaven Turns To Ash... will be
released via Southern Lord Recordings on February 24th, 2015. Preorder yours
today at THIS LOCATION.

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